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Co-author and editor of
O’Reilly’s “Baseball Hacks”
Quotes
from the baseball community
"Our
ability to generate stats has gotten way ahead of our ability to make any sense
of it… it's going to take a lot of work by people like Mr. Kaplan before
we understand what all this means."
v
Bill James (LA Times)
"Wow. Good stuff. It would be a big help to me if I was
advancing for the World Series – especially if I had it early and could
confirm with my own eyes. It gives scouts a great lead-in and allows them to
concentrate on other minute things that might win games."
v
Former World
Champion GM
“Until
Kaplan got into the act, talent scouts tracked players on written notes that
they later stuffed into file drawers…Now he’s developed databases
and decision-support systems for just about every Major League team in the
country.”
v
ComputerWorld
"I would love to get another printed report. I spent a long
time look at it this offseason, and it really helped my preparation. It was a
real eye opener and very informative study on my pitches. It was amazing!"
v
MLB World Series starter
"Amazing! We
didn’t see Anaheim for five weeks, and this really helped us prepare for
the series."
v
MLB Manager
“Kaplan has already
has devised three formulas that could, if instituted, change the way managers
handle their bullpens.”
v
Baseball
America
“… he can crunch numbers the
way Jose Canseco crunches fastballs. When it comes to computing statistics, Ari
Kaplan is The Natural. Baseball is beckoning because as any fan knows, the
sport thrives on numbers – and more so than ever in the computing
age.”
v LA Times
“Keeping
track of thousands of baseball scouting reports for minor and major league
teams can be very cumbersome. Especially remembering where you filed them.
Well, there's a new software program to help sort out all of this mess. Joining
us today is Ari Kaplan, the man behind this new program…And it’s
the best thing since sliced bread.”
v
CNN interview (with anchor Sean Callebs)
"Ari Kaplan's research has strengthened my arguments, and
greatly improved the quality of my baseball content. Listeners and colleagues
always react extremely well when observations are backed up with inventive,
quantifiable data.
v
Matt Spiegel, 670 The Score"
“Many a baseball manager has spent
seasons learning statistics and scouting before heading to the
dugout…Making sense of players and their stats is probably the single
most important job of the manager.”
v
Contract
Professional cover story
“Like many kids growing up
in New Jersey in the 1980s, Ari Kaplan avidly followed the New York Mets and
star pitcher David Cone. But Mr. Kaplan was a baseball nut with a high
understanding of math. While others filled out box scores, he formulated
equations to track the pitching staff's performance.”
v
Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40” award
“He really has a love for the game, and he is very
knowledgeable.”
v
Bill Harford, independent scout for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis
Cardinals and Minnesota Twins
See the Contract
Professional cover story 
DM Review: Executive Interview 
See the CNN/Fn
transcript .
See the Today
Show interview transcript .
See an LA
Times Article .
See a Baseball
America Article.
See an
1997 Trenton Times Article on Ari's Alumni of the
Decade Award.
See a 1991
Trenton Times Article.
